Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard has given an interview to Christiane Amanpour on CNN.

Gillard spoke about sexism, mysogyny and attitudes to women in public life. She said she was most proud of her government’s work in education and said the heads of government agreement with China was her greatest foreign policy achievement.

The former Labor leader also discussed the Indonesian spying allegations but refused to comment on intelligence activities during her time in office.

Gillard left parliament at the September election, following her overthrow by Kevin Rudd on June 26. Rudd’s formal resignation from parliament was announced today.